Walkaround of Sikorsky’s Raider X Compound Helicopter for US Army's FARA Contract at AUSA 21 

The Leviathan next...😏

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Not really that scalable. Those fixed rotors create a lot of vibration. The raider can get away with it because it only has to deal with one engine. The defiant destroys its transmission and anything bigger would be a death trap. Who knows if Sikorsky can fix it but I wouldn’t make that bet.

@n I would be interested in a source for that information. Lockheed says that new material science and computing power have beaten the vibration. Fifty years ago, the Cheyenne had vibration problems, but material science and computing power have changed a bit since then.

Where it could go? Same as usual... more dead people, more control for bankers, more money to Murder Inc.

In what game is that?

@@fred.flintstone4099 AUTOCAD duh

Most of us do honestly this are awesome and modern not only that but they are also fast

Probably a placeholder for what normally goes there to avoid leaking classified systems to public/etc I would assume.

I worked on these helos and never heard bill or any of the other pilots complain about it. I always wondered myself, but I guess with a little training its not a problem.

It's better the attack heli , than attack version of medium transport heli like the Blackhawk. Those are: AH-1 Viper, AH-64 Apache, AW Leonardo T-129, Rooivalk, TAI T-129, Airbus Tiger...

@@serdradion4010 Yeah, but first, each cost triple than the Blackhawk (15 ~ 17 million); second, when we aproached the US to purchase the Apache (45 millions) they said NO. At the time (the start of the millenium) our transport helos were being shot during the landings and suffered heavy loses because we didn't have heavy close aerial protection, the landings were extremly difficult in the middle of dense high mountain jungles so the only clear spots to disembark the commandos were few and the commuist guerrillas were there waiting for them. We urgently needed a heavy gunned helo to cover our transports landings. We thought the Apache or even the Super Cobra were the answer but the US negative gave us no much choice so in a stroke of creativity we decided to transform the Blackhawk into a heavy armed gunship to protect our troops and thats what we did. The Arpia I project started almost 20 years ago and today we got the 4th iteration with the heavyly armed Arpia IV packing a huge array of Gatling machin guns, Spike NLOS anti-tank missiles with a range of 25 kilometers, and even the capability to launch the Delilah cruise missile manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI). This of course gave us a much greater capability and more options to move from irregular battle scenarios to use the Arpia in conventional warfare against armored vehicles and main battle tanks, and even in anti-ship rol.

@@pixsilvb9638 Leonardo T-129, ex Agusta-Westland costs around 30 mil $, the most economic one and no limits to sell. Russian MI-35, Chinese Z-10 are even more economic, but probably they don't fit.

@@serdradion4010 Nothing like the Blackhawk Bro. Is simply the best utilitarian helo in the world. Plus is battle tested and is super reliable. In Colombia proved its quality. You ask the colombian armed forces and they could not praise this helo more. We even got a bunch that have been downed twice. Mechanics repaired them and in matter of weeks they are back flying over the combat zones.

Why? Who Colombia plan to fight? Wouldn't you rather have 5 older helicopters than one of this Raider X. You can buy second handed helis from the US at cheap price and your country will be fine. A $100K stinger in a wrong hand can take down one of this and what do you have? Back to square one.

The Cheyenne also had the problem of being a single rotor helicopter with a pusher. Nothing to offset the torque of that single rotor seems like it'd be a problem.

@@zachhoefs9543 the Cheyenne had a third rotor for offsetting the torque. It couldn't fly otherwise.

@@AurumFaber I don't see one.

@@zachhoefs9543 the helicopter in this video isn't the Cheyenne if that's what you mean. This one has two main rotors so that they cancel each other's torque by rotating in opposite directions. The AH-56A Cheyenne was the helicopter that was scrapped for suspicious reasons.

@@zachhoefs9543 the cheyenne had two tail rotors, one as a prop, much like the raider, and other to offset the torque and turn the aircraft, much like any traditional helicopter design. The cheyenne also had a built-in gyroscope for balance while that coaxial rotor does the same job for the raider. The cheyenne had a serious problem with vibration that seems to plague the defiant. Let's hope Sikorsky get at least the raider figured out.

Ever heard of bell 360 invictus

The F-35 Urg, bleah! Quite the opposite, the Raider X is a fast hot rod, where as the F-35 tops out at Mach 1.6 which pretty pedestrian by any standard--admittedly much faster than a Harrier or A-10 I guess. Also, we used to talk about Supercruise capability as being a 6th gen capability, well I'm afraid you need to look elsewhere. I'd rather say the Raider X is the F-22 of helicopters but with the 1990 avionics and computers brought up to date.

@@Ppadira The Bell 360 Invictus looks better, but I don't know how it can justify its existence, when there are drones that do the same thing. At least the Raider X can be used as a transport, as well as recon/attack helicopter.

@@scratchy996 Well that doesn't mean drones can replace attack choppers anytime soon . May be in future when unmanned choppers wont be a just mere a paper drawing

@@Ppadira Drones are already replacing attack helicopters.

Hopefully you will, and hopefully I’ll be making these things in real life too.

He did say this one was designed more as a recon/attack craft. Not really designed as a troop carrier, but it can carry 6 if-needed.

I think the thought process was the deployment or extraction of small reconnaissance squads. Or being able to quickly pick up a down helicopter crew. The SB-1 Defiant has the troop carrying capacity at least on par with a Blackhawk

This is meant to replace the Kiowa scout helicopter, not a transport.

You are thinking of the Defiant X which is a version of this that would replace the blackawk helicopter. This is meant for recon mission with attack capability. I do admit that the 6 seats for quick pickup and deploying is a big benefit of this design. Have a recon heli there and need a quick extraction, you dont need to call in a blackhawk or little bird and can use this to get them out of there.

There is no way a Cobra is less than half a meter wide but I get your point

On the AH-1G, the canopy width was 3'6", fuselage width was 3'.

Half a meter? No It was quite narrow though but still...

I doubt that size difference has to do with those misses. If you're talking about Vietnam, a lot of gun, missile, and fire control technology has come along.

Auto correct got me. I meant to say a less than a meter. I see where they say 36', so I am correct, less than a meter.

I like that machined mast too.

go see for yourself watch the test flight videos of this lmao wtf you people smoking this has passed alot of flight tests already and has done pretty damn well by all the accounts ive seen idk where some of you are getting this idea that it will never fly and be some paper weight lol wtf yall on

Old and proven helicopters are falling out of the sky over Ukraine right now. Helicopters need to evolve if they want to be able to survive the increased lethality of the types of weapons a modern country can employ against them.

@@Rampant16 exactly

@@Rampant16 To use a Devil's Advocate argument: Quite a few of the helis "falling out of the sky over Ukraine" are Kamovs with coaxial rotors, which are hardly an old and proven design. Sure, Kamov's been making them that way for some sixty years. But they started doing so under the USSR - so it only would have taken the advocacy of one top general wowed by the Gee-Whiz Factor to get their ball rolling, then a well-connected factory manager could keep it rolling. And no one else builds them that way, which argues against any kind of superiority for the design.

GAU-8 is massive and heavy. That would be a huge waste of time and resources

@@Cplblue Yeah, just too big. There are 20mm versions that might be better.

It’s intended purpose is for attack and recon, not medivac.

@@fentonpainter7907 Yes, I understand this, but, there are seats for transporting soldiers. This means, this helicopter is also will be used to bring soldiers to somewhere to fight. If they bring soldiers somewhere, than later these soldiers will be picked up by the same helicopter. When the soldiers are leaving the helicopter or when they are coming back and want to enter, they could get shot. Just imagine, how bad it is, if one or more of the soldiers are wounded, they are climbing into the helicopter, but there is no place to lie somewhere.

@@janostoth4315 There is no requirement for the helicopter to have extra seats, as it is purely an attack and reconnaissance vehicle. This is just the prototype, and I suspect the manufacturer just wanted to show there was plenty of spare space in the fuselage. Fitting a few seats is an easy way for them to do that. But in reality it would likely to be used for extra fuel tanks, munitions or electronic warfare equipment etc. Possibly inserting small SF teams in to hostile areas, but troop insertion and extraction isn't it's brief, and the Army has other vehicles for that.

@@janostoth4315 These test aircraft are only 80% scale from a full sized normal acft. They are meant for systems testing not combat readiness.

Blackhawk seats are some canvas stretch over a metal frame. So it doesn't take much to be a substantial upgrades over those.

Already flying

Everything is redundant in modern aircraft.

going to be a LOT of cross training accidents

bout 3.50 said Mr. Lochness Monster, Lockheed Martin Design Engineer. probably pretty good, also no LTE potential at high DA either.

There is probably redundancy with the other screens